Intro: Bike LA's "Bike Fest" with Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Director of BikeLA.

Not Good Enough: a deadly bike lane design in SF, with Sustainable Transportation activists Luke Bornheimer and Stacey Randecker.

8:03 https://on.soundcloud.com/vXtts

It works if you work it: a center running bike lane that works in the East Bay, with Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Robert Prinz.

22:06 https://on.soundcloud.com/vpAZP

She is the champion: multimodal, sustainable transportation advocate & Mayor of bike-friendly Santa Monica, Gleam Davis.

28:55 https://on.soundcloud.com/5kdaW

Ebike Rx: Northampton, Massachusetts P.E. teacher Salem Derby talks to students about how he's healing from a knee injury using an Ebike.

43:46 https://on.soundcloud.com/nuSsj

Intro

Lindsay, Taylor and Nick on the upcoming show and Taylor's triumphant return from bike-friendly Spain.

Carrying Water: Eric Berger’s article on the American Sepp Kuss' victory in the Vuelta a España.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/09/a-water-carrier-just-won-the-hardest-cycling-race-on-the-planet/

10:15 https://on.soundcloud.com/4T4bd

The Best Get Better: The end of Parking Mandates in New York City with Open Plans NYC Co-Executive Director Sara Lind.

26:40 https://on.soundcloud.com/6CoLb

Imminent: A 104 mile car free fully protected network of converted rail trails across Massachusetts, from Boston to Northampton. With rail trail warrior Craig Della Penna.

37:50 https://on.soundcloud.com/yrMCf

Pilgrimage: Taylor Nichols' walk on the Camino de Santiago in Spain.

Park It: Landscape Studies professor Reid Bertone Johnson created a playground for a day in a parking space for international parking day.

5:13 https://on.soundcloud.com/QKt7s

Exercised: An interview with Andrew Leonard, the author of The NY Times Article "How I Turned My Errands Into Exercise."

15:05 https://on.soundcloud.com/MdgQi

Oregon Advocate: Jenna Berman, an Active Transportation Liaison for the Oregon Department of Transportation, on the state of bicycle advocacy in Oregon.

31:52 https://on.soundcloud.com/6deUB

Science: Dr. Grace Peng, a Bike activist/physicist, on why we should bike more, drive less (and more slowly).

42:52 https://on.soundcloud.com/FSj73

Cohosts Seamus, Taylor, and Nick read listener email.

6:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/5aGsc

Into The Blue: A company redesigns cities for biking as part of making them like "Blue Zones," the places where people live longest. With Dan Burden, Director of Inspiration and Innovation, Blue Zones LLC.

26:34 https://on.soundcloud.com/T4Qqm

Kindermoord, American Style: A ribbon cutting at an unprotected bike lane on a busy street prompts LA Streetsblogger Liz Schiller to ask, "Why do we love our cars more than our children?" With Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols.

https://la.streetsblog.org/2023/08/15/why-do-we-love-cars-more-than-we-love-our-children

37:24 https://on.soundcloud.com/fmvmr

Scooters V. Climate Change: A Lime executive discusses micromobility's inclusion in California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard program. Calvin Thigpen, Director of Policy Research at Lime, with Bike Talk cohost Seamus Garrity.

Fix it: Brake maintenance advice from fixie rider, activist, and Los Angeles Metro Bikeshare mechanic Anne Marie Drolet.

5:25 https://on.soundcloud.com/8sfcb

Redesigner: Jeff Speck, author of "Suburban Nation" and "Walkable Cities," on making cities walkable and bikeable. With Taylor Nichols.

36:16 https://on.soundcloud.com/meh79

Regulate: Getting the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration to mandate Bicyclist Emergency Braking in deadly autonomous vehicles. With Ken McLeod, Policy Director of League of American Bicyclists, interviewed by Taylor Nichols.

4:00 https://on.soundcloud.com/Np452

Healthy Pastime: The personal and planetary health benefits of biking with scientist and Resources Chair for League of Women Voters in Los Angeles Dr. Grace Peng and Isabella Chu, Associate Director of the Data Core at Stanford’s Center for Population Health Sciences. By Lindsay Sturman and Taylor Nichols.

28:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/UuLMM

Business Bikelash: attachment to parking undermines livability and endangers the safe, healthy road design planned for Northampton, Massachusetts' Main Street. With Tony Jordan, President of the Parking Reform Network, and Elena Huisman, co-Founder of Main Street for Everyone.

42:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/EMQg4

Yes: YIMBY Joanna Gubman connects land use, transportation, and environmentalism with bikes as Executive Director for Urban Environmentalists, a board member of the SF Bicycle Coalition, and Environmental Director at YIMBY Action. By Seamus Garrity.

3:53 https://on.soundcloud.com/wZMqa

Here, Then, and When: How car companies sold us car-centric roads, and how autonomous cars and EVs will not solve that problem. With Peter Norton, author of "Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City," and "Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving." By Lindsay Sturman.

32:57 https://on.soundcloud.com/BkV3v

Show Me the Way: On bike tourism and the Western New England Greenway, with Dan McGuinness and Tom O' Brien. By Lily Hoffman-Strickler.

45:02 https://on.soundcloud.com/2P4aJ

Static Motion: "Bike scribble" artist Kathleen King Page's bike sculptures, murals, and canvasses are featured across the country. With Lily Hoffman-Strickler.

7:22 https://on.soundcloud.com/Eix9J

Here for the Ratio: Anne Marie Drolet, a bikeshare mechanic in Los Angeles, breaks down gear ratios with Nick.

18:18 https://on.soundcloud.com/2C5iE

Good Work: Kristen Sykes, a Holyoke, Massachusetts Bike Ped Committee and MassBike Board member, on what's being done to make Holyoke friendlier to bikes. With Holyoke student Lily Hoffman Strickler.

28:45 https://on.soundcloud.com/8zxgn

Picture if You Will: The Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts has big ideas for biking in the already bike friendly town. Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra With Director of Planning & Sustainability Carolyn Misch, Pedal People co-founder Ruthy Woodring, and Nick Richert.

41:53 https://on.soundcloud.com/8zxgn

Talk to Me: Pablo Lebidensky writes about mobility in Buenos Aires, and talks with Nick about it.

51:37 https://on.soundcloud.com/2TvN7

Spokes 'N Stuff: Bike mechanic Manny Alvarado on the basics of maintenance. Also: Burning Man vet Ves gets his bike tuned. With Taylor Nichols.

Magnus White's not-accidental car killing, No More Ghost Rides and Trash Panda Cycling's LA bike calendar with Raphael Hernandez and cohosts. https://linktr.ee/trashpandacycling

13:07 https://on.soundcloud.com/Umnsp

Fight Back: Talking Back To Bikelash with CalBike's Kevin Claxton. https://www.calbike.org/talking-back-to-bikelash/

35:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/Srv9m

RAGBRAI: The Great Iowa Fall Ride with "Shift" documentarians/Des Moines Register journalists Courtney Crowder and Kelsey Kremer, and RAGBRAIder Shem Bitterman, with Taylor. https://ragbrai.com/documentary/

Chutzpah: the supermajority on Vancouver's City Council, ABC ("A Better City"), ripped out iconic Stanley Park's protected bike lane to make room for drivers to enjoy nature through windshields. Lucy Maloney, Vancouver safe streets activist, says that ABC has its sights on other bike lanes. But there's always hope. Then, cohosts Seamus, Taylor, and Nick discuss whether political ideology correlates to attitudes towards active transportation.

17:28 https://on.soundcloud.com/V9DvY

Front Lines: Lawsuits against NYC congestion pricing, higher registration fees for heavier vehicles, and backtracking by Mayor Adams on a safer McGuiness Boulevard, from Transportation Alternatives' Associate Director of Communications Alexa Sledge.

30:25 https://on.soundcloud.com/Pv92w

Sidelined: The US Department of Transportation created a report that recommended mandating truck sideguards to protect vulnerable road users from getting dragged and crushed. The truck industry was given the report, and pressured the USDOT to change its recommendation. Somerville Alliance for Safe Streets member Alex Epstein says the USDOT has been "captured" by the trucking industry. Alex is joined by Caron Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of the League of American Cyclists, and Steven Bingham, father of a cyclist caught and crushed under a truck.

53:56 https://on.soundcloud.com/BsDdb

Mattapan on Wheels: Making Mattapan, Massachusetts safe for bikers with Vivien Morris, Chair and Founder of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.